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Of CHAPTER XXVI. (Continued). The chill laid my spirits low for a moment, then they rose as those of a better man might io at the scent of danger. If be could warn, he could also withold. I would trust him- or I would at least trust my fate. And so good, bye to self. Arthur's life and Carmel's future peace were trembling in the balance. Surely these were worth the full attention of the man who loved the woman, who pitied the man. Next moment I heard these words. delivered hi the slow and but slightly raised tones with which Mr Moffat invariably began his speeches :— I May it please the Court and gentlemen of the jury, my learned friend of the prosecution has shown great discretion in this, that so far as appears from the trend of his examinations, he is planning no attempt to explain the many silences and the often forbidding attitude of my young client by any theory but the obvious one of a natural desire of a brother to hide his only remaining sister's connection with a tragedy of whose details he was ignorant, and concerning which he had formed a theory derogatory to her position as a young and un- cootaminated woman. I am, therefore, spared the task of pressing upon your consideration this very natural, and I may add, laudable. ground for my client's many hesitations and suppression?, which under other circumstances would militate so deeply against him in the eyes of an upright and impartial jury. Any! man with a heart in his breast and a sense of honour in his soul, can understand why this man, whatever his record, and however imper- vious he may have seemed in the days of his prosperity and the wilfumess of his youth, should recoil from revelations which would attack the honour, if not the life, of a young and beautiful sister, sole remnant of a family eminent in station, and in all those moral and civic attributes which make for the honour of t town and lend distinction to its history. Pear for a loved one, even in one whom you wiB probably hear described as a dis- sipated man of selnsh tendencies and hitherto unbrotherly qualities, is a great miracle-worker. No sacrifice seems impossible which serves as a go&rd for one so situated and so threatened, Let us review my client's history, let us disentangle if we can our knowledge of what occurred in the club-house, from his knowledge of it at the time be showed these unexpected t-ratis of self-control and brotherly anxiety tfhich you will hear so severely scorned by my nble opponent. His was a nature in which honourable instincts had for ever battled with the secret predilections of youth for iudepen- dence and free living. He rebelled at all moni- tion but this did not make him altogether in- sensible to the secret ties of kinship, or the claims upon his protection of two highly gifted sisters. Consciously or unconsciously, he kept thatch upon the two and when be saw that an Ir extraneous influence was undermining their mutual confidence, he rebelled in his heart, tongue and actions. Then came an evening when with feelings already rasped by a per- sonal humiliation, he saw a letter passed. You have heard the letter and listened to its answer but he know nothing beyond the fact, a fact which soon received a terrible signi- Scance from the events which so speedily loNowed." Here Mr MoSat recapitulated those events, but always from the* standpoint of the prisoner a- standpoint which necessarily brought before the jury the many exceDent reasons which his client had f(a* supposing this crime to have re- sulted solely from the conflicting interests re- presented by that hirtivety passed note, and the visit of two girls instead of one to The Whispering Pines. It was very convincing, especially his picture of Arthur's impolaive Right from the chib-house at the first sound of his sisters' voices. Tbeleamed counsel for the prosecution may eajl t2ris unnatural." he cried may say that no brother would leave the place under such circumstances, whether sober or not sober, ajtrve to dnty or dead to it ? that curiosity would hold him there if nothing else. But he forgets, if thus he thinks, and thus would have you think, that the man who now confronts you from the bar is separated by an immense experience from the boy of that hour ef sur- prise and seiBah pre-occupa.tion. You who have hea.fd the pnsoner tell how he could not re- member if he carried up one or two bottles from the kitchen, can imagine the blank condition of his unttttored mind at the mo- ment when those voices fell upon his ear, eaBmg hhh to responsiMities he had never before shouMered, and saw no way of shoul- dering now. He was alarmed for himself, airaid of the disco-very of the sneaking act of which he had just been guilty, not fearful for his sisters in that nrst instant of incon- siderate escape. You would have done dmerentty, but you are all men disiplmed to forget your- selves. and think first of others, taught in the school of life to face responsibility rather than ahirk it, but discipline had not yet reached this unhappy boy, the slave so far of his unfortunate habits. It began its work later yet not much later. Before he had half-crossed the goli4inks, the sense of what he had done stopped him in middle course, and, reckless of the oncoming storm, he tinned his back upon the place he wasjnaking for., only to switch aroond again, as crarvmg got the better of his curiosity, or of that deeper feeUng to .which my experienced opponent will, no doubt, touchingly allude, when he comes to survey the situation with you. The storm contimoing obliterated his steps as fast as the ever whitening spaces beneath receded them, but if it had stopped then and there, leading those wandering 'impr!nis to tell thea- story, what a tale we might haTe read of the nrst secret comnict in this mw2kening soul. I leave you to hna.gine this histocy, and paas to the bitter hour when, Backed by a night of dissi- pation, he was aroused indeed to the magni- tode of his fault and tke awful consequences of his sen-indulgence by the news of his elder Bister's violent death and the hardly lesa ipttMul condition of the younger. The ocmger The paiOBe he-m&de here was more eloquent than any weeds. Is it for me to laud her vir- tues or -to seek to impress upon you in this con- nection the 0'verwhehmng nattn'e of the events ) which in reality had laid her mind and body low ? You have seen her, you have heM'd her and the memory of the tale she has here told wiD never leave yonr memories or Jose its hold j upon your sympathies or your admiration. It everything else in connection with this case is forgotten, the recoDection of that will re- zaatn. You and I, and all who wait upon your vxrdwt, will in dne time pass from among the t<)nng, and leave anaC print behind us on the xaztds of tone. But her actwill not die, and to ? I now o&er the homage of aBence, since that wooid best pteaae her heroic soni, which only broke the bonds of womanlyreserve to save trom an unmerited charge a faitaely arraigned brewer." The restraint a.nd yet the nre with which Mr Mo&at uttered these sonpte woede, lifted all hearts and aorchatged the atmosphere with an emotion rarely awakened in a court oUaw. Not in my pulses alone was started the electric cur- rent of renewed liie. The jury to a man glowed with enthusiasm, and from the-aaxttence rose one long and suppressed sigh of answering feeling, which was all the tribute he needed fer his eloquence, or Carmel for her uncalculatmg seM-aacrineing deed. I couML have caned upon the mountains to cover me, but God be prataed no one thought of me in that honr, every throb and every thought was for her. At the proper moment of subsiding feeling, Mr MoSat again raised his voice-:— Gentlemen of the jory, you hwm seen point after point of the prosecotton's case demolished before your eyes by testimony which no one has had the temerity to attempt to controvert. What is left? Mr Tox will tell you, three strong and unassailable facts The ring found in the murdered woman's casket, the remnants of the tell-tale botUe discovered in the Cumberlajid staMe, and the opportunity for-e given by the acknowledged presence of the prisoner on or near the scene of death. He will harp on these tacts, he will make much of them, and he will be jostined in doing so, for they are the only links remaining of the strong chain forged so carefully against my client. But are these points so vital as they seem ? Let as consider them and see. My client has demied that he dropped anything into his sister's casket, much less the ring missing from that tester's finger. Dare you then convict on this point, when according to count, ten other persons were seen to drop nowers into this very place, any of which might have carried this object with it ? And the bit of broken bottle found in or near the defendant's own stable Is he to be convicted on the similarity it offers to the one known to have come from the chib-house wine- vaalt, while a reasonable donbt remain? of his having been the hand which carried it there ? No. Where there is a reasonable doobt, no high-minded }ury will convict, and I claim that my client has made it plain that there is such a reasonable doubt." All this and move did Mr Moffat dilate upon, bd I cotild no longer Rx my mind on details, and much of thispoctK'n of his address escaped me. But I do remember the startling picture with which he closed. His argument so far had been based on the assumption of Arthcu''s ignorance of Carmet's purpose in visiting., the ciub-hoose, or of Adelaide's attempt at suicide. His cHcnt had left the building when he said be did. and knew no more of what happened there after- warcl,-i than circumstances showed or his own im:tgitta.tiou conceived. But now his advocate took a sudden turn. and calmly asked the jury to consider with him the alternative oitlined by the prosecution in the evidence set before them. My distinguished opponent." said he. would have you beHeve that the defendant did not ny at the moment deciaj-ed, bttt waited to fulfil the foul deed which is the onty serious matter in dispate in his so nearly destroyed case. I hear, as though he were now speaking, the attack which be will make upon my client when he conies to reviewthis matter with you. Let me see if I cannot make you bear those words, too." And with a daring smile at his discomnted adversary, Alonzo MoSat )armched forth into the following sarcasm "Arthur Cumberland, coming up the kitchen stairs, hears voices where he had expected total silence, sees light where he had left total dark- ness. He has two bottles in his hands or in his large coat-poekets. If they are in his hands, he sets them down and steals forward to listen. He has recognised the voices. They are those of his two sisters, one of whom had ordered him to hitch up the sleigh for her to escape, as he had every reason to believetbe other. CmT- osity, or is it some nobter feeHng, causes him tc draw nearer and nearer to the room in which they have taken up their stand. He can hear, their words now and what are the words be heaM ? Words that would thrill the most imper- vious heart call for the interference of the most indifferent. But he is made of ice, welded together with steel. He sees-for no place but one he can see from, viz., the dark dancing hall, would satisfy any man of such gigantic curio- sity—Adelaide fall at Carmet's feet in recogni- tion of the great sacrifice she has made for her, but he does not move; he falls at no one's feet; he recognises no nobility, responds to no higher appeaL Stony and unmoved he crouches there and watches and watches, still curious, or still feeding his hate on the sn&eriogs of the elder, the forbearance of the younger. And on what does he look ? You have already heard, but fooeidef it. Adelaide, despairing of happiness, decides on death for herself or sister. Both loving one man, one of the two must giver way to the other. Carmel has done herv&rt, she must now do hers. She has brought poison she has Zadok had leaped from the box and grovelled at those dear feet, kissing the insensible hands. brought glasses, three glasses for three persons, bat only two are on the scene and so she fills but two. One has only cordial in it, but the other is, as she believes, deadly. Carmel is to have her choice, but who believes-that Adelaide would ever have let her drink the poisoned gtass and this man looks on, as the two faces confront each other, one white with the over- throw of every earthly hope, the other under the stress of suSering and a fascination of horror sufBcient to have laid her dead without poison at the other one's feet. This is what he sees-a, brother—and he makes no move, then or afterwards, when, the die cast, Adelaide succombs to her fear and falls into a seemingly dying state on the couch. Does he go now ? Is his bate or his cupidity satisfied ? No, he remains and listens to the tender interchange of Snal words, and all the late precautions of the elder to guard the younger woman's good name. Still he is not softened, and when the critical moment pMsed, Cannel rises and tot- teas about the room in her endeavour to rul- <U the tasks enjoined upon her by her sister, he gloats over a death which will give him inde- peodance, and gluts himself with every evil thought which could blind him to the pitifnl aspects of a tragedy soch as few men in this world could see unmoved. A brother But this is not the woEst, the awful cup of human greed and hatred is but nDed to the brim; it has not yet overflowed. Csotnel leaves the room she has a telephonic message to deliver. She may be gone a minute, she may be gone many. UtHe does he care winth he must see the dead. look down on the woman who has been like a mother to him, and see if her imhtence is for ever removed, if her weatHi is his and his independence forever asstired. Safe in the daa'kness of the gloomy recesses of the dancing ha!l, he steals slowly forward. Drawn as by a magnet, he enters the room of seeming death, draws up to the p31ow-Iaden couch, pulls off nrst one«f these, and then another tSt face and hands are bare, and—Ah, there is a movement!—death has not then tone its work. She iivea—the hated one—lives, and he is no longer rich, no longer indepen- dent. With a clutch he seizes her at the feeble seat of liie, and as the breath ceaaes and her whole body becomes again inert, he stops to puu off the ring which can have no espectaj vahie or meaning for him, and then re-piling the cushions over her. creeps forth agaam, takes up the bottles and disappears from the hottse. Men of the jury, this is what my opponent would have you believe. This win be his explanation of this extraordinary murder; but when his eloquence meets, your ears, when you hear this arraignment and the emphasis he win place upon the few points remaining to his broken case, then ask yourself tf you see such a monster in the prisoner now confronting you from the bar. I do not believe it. I do not be- lieve that such a monster lives. But you say. someone entered that room, someone stilled the fluttering life still remain- ing in that feeble breast. Some one may, but that someone was not my client, and it is his guilt or innocence we are considering this hour, and it is hisjife and freedom for whtch you are responsible. No brother did that deed no wit- ness of the scene which haQowed this tragedy ever lifted hand against the fainting Adelaide or choked back a life which kindly fate had spared. Go further for the guilty perpetrator of this most inhuman act. He stands not in the dock. Guilt shows no such relief as you see in him to-day. Guilt would remember that his sister's testimony under the cross-examination of the peopie's prosecutor left the charge of murder still hanging over the prisoner's head. But the brother has forgotten this. His restored confidence in one who now represents to him father, mother, and sister has thrown his own fate into the background. Will you dim that joy ?—sustain this charge of murder ? If, in your sense of justice ymi so do, you forever place this degenerate son of a noble father on the list of the most unimaginative and hate- driven criminals of all time. Is he such a demon ? Is he such a madman ? Look in his face to-day and decide. I am willing to leave his cause in your hands. It could be placed in no better. May it please your honour, and gentlemen of the .}ury, I am done." If anyone at that moment felt the arrow of death descending into his heart, it was not Arthur Cumbelrand. CHAPTER XXVII. I am a faulted wether of the Hock, Meetest for death the weakest kind of fruit Drops earliest to the ground, and so let me: You cannot better be employ'd, Bassanio, Than to live still, and write my epitaph. —" Merchant of Venice." Why linger over the result. Arthur Cumbpr- iand's case was won before Mr Fox rose to his feet. The usual routine was gone through. The District Attorney made the most of the three facts which he decla.red inconsistent with the prisoner's innocence, just as Mr MoSat said he would but the life was gone from his work and the resalt necessarily unsatisfactory. The Judge's charge was short but studiously 'impartial. When the jury filed out I said to mysetf, They will return in fifteen minutes." They returned in ten with the verdict of a.cquittaJ The demonstrations of joy which followed filled my ears, &nd doubtless left their impres- sion upon my other senses, but my mind took in nothing but the apparition of my own form taking his place at the bar under circomstances less favourable to acquittal than those which bad exonerated him. It was a picture which set my brain whirling. A phantom judge. a phantom jury. a phantom circle of faces, lack- ing the consideration and confidence of those I saw before me, but not a phantom prisoner or any mere dream of outrageous shame and suSering. That shame and that suffering had atready got hold of me. With the relief of young Arthur's acquitted, my faculty had cleared to the desperate position in which this very acquittal had placed me. I saw. as never before, how the testimony which had rein- stated Carmel in my heart and won for her and through her the sympathies of the whole peo- ple. had overthrown every specious reason wiuch I and those interested in me had been able to advance in contradiction of the natural conclusion to be drawn from the damming fact of my having been seen with my fingers on Adelaide's throat. Mr Moffat's words rung in my ears. Someone entered that room, someone stilled the nnttering life still remaining in that feeble breast, but that someone was not, her brother. Yon most look further for the guilty perpetra- tor of this most inhuman art-someone who has not been a witness to the scene preceding this tragedy, someone—(he bad not said this, but every mind had supplied the omission)— someone who had come in later—come in after Cannel had gone, some one who knew nothing of the telephone message which was even then hastening the police to the spot, some one who had every reason for lifting those cushions and on meeting life——" The horror stifled me I was reeling in my place on the edge of the crowd when I heard a quiet voice in my ear :— Steady their eyes will soon be off Arthur, and then they will look at you." It was Clifton, and his word came none too soon. 1 stiffened under its quiet forca-_and tak- ing his arm, let him lead me out of a side door where the crowd was smaller and its attention even more absorbed than the one I had left. I soon saw its cause. Carmd.was entering the doorway from the street. She had come to greet her brother, and her face, quite unveiled, was beaming with beauty and joy. In an instant I forgot myself, and forgot everything but her and the effect she produced upon those about her. No noisy demonstration here, admiration and love were shown in looks, and the low- breathed prayer for her welfare which escaped from more than one pair of lips. She smiled and their hearts were hers; she essayed to move forward and the people crowded back as if at a queen's passage but there was no noise. When she reappeared it was on Arthur's ann. I had not been able to move from the pl&ce in which we were bemmed,.nor had I wished to. I was hungry for a glance of her eye. Would it turn my way, and if it did, wocM it leave a curse or a blessing behind it ? In anxiety for the blessing I was-willing to risk the curse, and I followed her every step with hungry glances, t!U she reached tbi&,doorway and tamed to give another shake of the hand to Mr Moffat, who had followed them. But she did not see Tne. I cannot miss it; I must catch her eye," I whispered to Cliftoc. Get me out of this it will be several minutes before they can reach the sleigh let me see her for one instant, face to face." Clifton disapproved, and made me aware of it, but he did my bidding nevertheless. In a few momcaits we were on theaidewalk and quite by ourselves, so that if she turned again she could not fail to observe me. I had small hope, however, that she would so turn. She and Arthur were within a. few feet of the curb and their own sleigh. I had just time to see this sleigh and note the rejoicing face of Zadok lean- ing sideways from the box, when I behetd her pause and slowly turn her head around and peer eagerly, and with what divine Mociety in her eyes.tMtck overthe heads of those thronging about her till her gaze rested fuBy and sweetly on mine. My heart leapt, then sank down, down into unutterable depths, for in that in- bant her face changed, an&hormr seized upon her beauty and snook her frantic hold on Arthur's ajtn. I heard words, uttered very near me, but I did not catch them. I did feel. how- ever, the hand which was laid stfongty aa4 with autbority upon my shoulder, and tearing my eyes from her face only l<mg enough to per- ceive that it was Sweetwaterwho bad thus laid hand on ma, I looked back at her in time to aee the questions leap from ber lips to At-thur, whose answers I could well understand ffom ?)€ pitying movement in the crowd and the low hum of restrained voices which ran be- tween the sinking figure and the spotwhece Lj stood apart with the detective's hand on my shoulder. She had never been told of the incriminating position in which I had been seen in the chtb- ho'use. It had been carefully kepHrotn her, and she had supposed that my acquittal in the pub- lic mind was as certain as Arthur's. Now she saw heraeif undeceived, and the re-action into doubt and misery was too much for her, and I saw her sinking under my eyes. Let me go to her I shrteked, utterly un- concerned with anything in the world but this tottering, fainting girl But Sweetwater's hand only tightened on my shoutder, while Arthur, with an awful look at me, caught his sister in his arms just as she fell to the ground before, the swaying multitude. But he was not the only one to knee! there With a sound of love and misery impoamble to describe, Zadok had leapt from the box and had grovelled at those dear feet, kissing the insen- sible hands and praying for those shut eyea to open. Even after Arthur had lifted her into the sleigh, the man remained crouching where she had fallen, with his eyes roaming back and forth in a sightless stare from her to myMlf, muttering and groaning and totaBy unheedful of Arthur's commands to mount the box and drive home. Finally tome one ehte stepped from the crowd and mercifully took the reins. I caught one more glimpse of her face, with Arthu're bent tenderty over it, then the sleigh slipped away, and an officer shook Zadok by the arm, and h&got up and began to move away. Then I had mind to face my own fate, and looking up I met Sweetwater's eye. It was quietly apologetic. I only wished to congratulate you," said he, on the conclusion of a cttse in which I know you are highly interested." And, lifting his hat, he nodded affably, and was gone before, I could recover from my stupor. It was for Clifton to show his indignation. I was past all feeling. Farce as an after-ptece never appealed to me. Would I have considered it farce if I could have heard the words which this detective was at that moment whispering into the District Attorney's ears :— Do you want to know who throttled Adel- laide Cumberland ? It was not her brother it was not her lover it was her old and trusted coachman." (To be Conctuded.) Our N eztN ew Serial TRE MISSING DOLORES," By Phillips Oppenltein, wtH ccmMe?M;e on April 30th.
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Death from misadventure was the ver- dict returned at an inquest at Abergavenny on Saturday on Edward Chartes Drowtey (36), an mmate of the asylum. Drowley was for- merly a- clerk in good employ at Newport and was organist at Usk Church, being admitted into the asylum in 1900. On Wednesday, white being fed, a piece of bread choked him. :?
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ouks Ctaude Duvsd and the Countess. By AUSTIN PH!UPS, Author of The Lord of Misrule," The Murder at the Silchester Post (Mace, Ac.. Ac. The lumbering crested coach, plashed through the rain-rutted road of Driotwich Town, and drew up at the B!ue Boar Inn. A heavy thunder-storm had fallen but one brief before, and now the red evening sun lay rored in the pools which dotted the ill-kept highway. The Inn stood at the northern end of the hamlet: the coach had come in from the south. Gentlefolk stopped seldom at the comfortable looking house of call something unusual was afoot; and the sqaare ia front of the Blue Boar became filled pith a gaping crowd of onlookers. Two postilions leaped from their saddles one of them ran to hold the foam-decked leaders' head, the other with an obeisance, fhmg open the ponderous door of the vehicle. In the porch stood the landlord, plump, yet sinuous of spine, gorgeous in claret-colour suit, with hose to match. Evidently the coach had been looked for evidentty. too, its owner waa of the loftiest rank and quality. A thrill of expectation ran thfough the curi- ous crowd, then lulled, then rose again, and rising, changed to a pang of despair. For the occupant of the coach was veiled—veiled with the blackest, thickest veil that ever Andnla- sian looms had spun. A foot and ankle ravisbingly beautiful, hung for a moment in tremulous indecision, then trod the weM-wom step below the carriage door. Another foot and: ankle. equally adorable. followed the pioneer. Then the pair of them carried their owner, with graceful swiftness, past the bow- ing, claret-coloured suit on into the warm and welcoming hall beyond.. Within the hostelry the lady tamed to the obsequious landlord. Is the gentleman here ?" she demanded, imperiously. Milord has been awaiting your ladyship these three hours he answered, bobbing with frequent bows. Her dark eyes Hashed through the lace meshes of her veiL Tell him'"—-she began. The landlord, in anticipation of her com- mand, bad darted down the corrtdor with a celerity well-nigh incredible in one so obese. Stop fellow she nung after him. He returned to her presence, positively exuding servility. Take me to him." she ordered. He put himself in front of her led a silent- footed way then threw a door open at the far end of the corridor. Milord he announced, the lady for whom Milord has been waiting is here She paused on the threshold and passed into the nim. Leave us was all that she said. And the door shut sharply in the face of the landlord, forced by her sudden action to waste his best and most profound reverence upon the empty corridor without. The cavalier made two strides across the square windowed, heavy-curtamed room. Your ladyship! he said, as he took her out-stretched hands and carried them to his lips. < She let him hold her hands a little apace, while she leaned back and watched him as he stood before her, a gallant gentleman in bravest disarray. Then she let go of them in- voluntarily, more than ever conscious of his dull. level, uninteresting ndeKty to herself— a ndeHty which she knew she did not deserve, a tribute which, though it pleased her, IeS, her cold.; nay, even, induced an ahnost active ennui. Faith, sir, you've ridden hard she pre- sently said, with a nodat hisboats bespattered from heel to thigh. I shall ride, harder in your ladyship's service ere set of sun said he. Has your )adyship the letters ?" he went on after a pause.. She put a band to the ftont of her dress and drew out a packet tied with a suken ribbon, Then she tossed it to him with a cai'dess ges- ture. He cangbt it with a deftness, untied the knot, ran the letters 'through h)& fingers, one by 'one His forehead furrowed, and he re- peated his examination with almost extrava- gant thoroughness. She stood the while with her back to him stood with her face towards a mirror on the wall and her hands were busy with the fastenngs of ber veil. "Madatnf he broke insnddtenty "one of them is missing f*' She turned quickly round. Impossible she said. He met her contradiction with a qtiestion. Wajs there no letter fortbe Duke of YoA r" he asked. Most certainty she told hen. And be- fore all others in importance It ia not here r"ne instated woodenty. Again impossible she protested. Be handed her the packet in silence. In good tfnth, madam satd he, with as much heait aa it was in Mm to shcxt, in good truth I do not )est." And his shoulders rose amd fell with a hope- less shrug. Before God you're right!" she saM at la&t. Their eyes met despairingly. Was the letter "—he pansed for a word— indiscreet ?" was the epithet he ultimately chose. So indiscreet," she retomed, that y ou and I——" Tybom ?" he signincanUy anticipated. Tybum, indisputably Tybom!" she agreed. But that's not. the worst!" she went on, catching her breath. No ?" was the interrogatively. Could anything be worse!" Contemtpt for his flack of understanding showed eloquent in her eyes. What of the orange-woman t she asked with hatred throbbing in her voice. What of her triumph and what of my shame ? For the King to whom Nell Gwynne to-day is but a passing toy, would gratify her lightest whim were he to leam that I have played him false!" Her magnificent anger set his sluggish blood in spate. Faith, though, you coald teach NeUy how to die he said admiringly. 'C NeHy wouldn't appreciate the lesson!" came the answering sneer. She walked towards the window, drew back the short red curtains to their utmost limit, and watched the slow decadence of the June sun. Then she faced him agaam, with a look winch told aH that lack of perception prevented him seeing. I nmst ave I most live!" she cried pas- sionately. If only to thwart the orange- woma.n Cant you nnd a way t" she asked hnn in utter helplessness, knowing that he cou!d not. His siow mind quickened to an onforseen eSort of imagination. I might Ond the letter i" he sa4d signin- cantly She came close to him. Where ?" she asked. Where did you last open the packet ?" s&id he. At the Inn at Worcester In the room where yoa dined Yes Yes Perhaps I dropped the letter there Why shouldn't it be there still ?" he per- sisted, not without pride at his own astuteness, It was a private room, was it not ?" For answer she picked his cloak from off the .table, threw it across his outstretched arm and pushed him towards the door. The Raven at Worcester'" she said rapidly, aa her breath came and went with little gaaps. And the nrst room in the right wing of the inn. I aat in the window recess, and maybe I left the letter> there.. It's a chance, but yet—" But yet ni ride and see God speed your errand, sir said she. For once his devotion to her failed to blind his understanding, soch as it was. You've put us in a pretty mess!" he grumMed, with his band on the door-knob. She shot a glance at him—a glance which conveyed at once admiration and contempt. To extricate yoor friends from nice predi- caments long since has been your metier. Sir Harry Vane she aaid. And then there is the Duke of York's gratitade Put not your trust in princes be re- minded her. I don't!" she answered feelingty. I h-aa than any woman." Then she held out her hands. We lose precious time," she told him. He took the outstretched hands and kissed them ferventty. Good-bye" she said. And come back quickly He looked at her a litHe then opened the door. I sha!l cotne back—and quickly was his answer. And the unusual briskness of his tone almost carried belief to her ha!f-mazed mind. The noise of the door, as it closed after him, brought her back to a sense of time and place. She walked to the window, took a few restless turns round the big gate-iegged table in the centre of the oak-paneled room, put her feet upon the brickwork that fringed the nrelesa grate, read with unheeding eyes the godly exhortation painted in black characters upon the plastered overmantel. Then she nung herself into a chair. "La!" she said, "but I'm a pretty fool! The neatest, nicest plot that ever was hatched to be jeopardised by my folly. And I daren't show Sir Harry what I feet beca.use he'd cease to be my s!a,ve if he thought that I could feel anything at aJL Yet God knows I can teal." Nota, draught, I hopp, Madame a voice intrusively ventured. She tooked hastily round .with nervous hands gripping the arms of her hih-backed chair. A man uf more than middle-height—appar- ently a gentleman--smiled at her through the open window. A small black moustache ia-y ]ikp a thread upon his upper lip, and accentu- ated the beautiful'whitencss of his teeth. Obvi- ously he wa-s pleasant to regard and in her involuntary appreciation of his good looks she lost, for the moment, all sense of danger and fear. Madame," he began, it is hut early sum- mer yet, and these June nights beget the ague. With Manama's permission I will enter the apartment And he vaulted the sill as a sequel to hia words. Sir she expostulated, rising from her chair, this ia indeed beyond a jest The intruder bowed gallantly, and with his hand upon his heart. Ah Madame," be regretfully brought out, it is for me no jesb but a tragedy Why so ?" she asked, intrigued and yet alarmed. His eyes c<)nouered hers, whtch, for a mo- ment, fell from his face. When she looked up he held a pistol in his hand. A thief she sneered. Madame is cruel in the choice of her words'" said he. I She made a movement, as if in vain attempt at night. But he caught her intention, darted across the room, put his back against the door, brought his weapon to the level of her eyes. Madame he smiled, my nnger is ner- vous on the trigger--a.nd my pistol might, to my everlasting regret, explode. And Madame is so beautiful—alive Then he went on, May 1 trouble Madame for her rings, which she wears to their ao obvious advantage ?" Never'" came her determined answer. Never Madame," he persuasively pursued, "Madame requires no adornment, while my poor purse is sadly in need of garnishing!" She stood facing him with her hands upon the windjow seat behind her. You aak in vain," she assured him. I witi not give up a single ring His smile ripened into a little iaugh—a !augh which more than hinted an appreciation of her courage. But a certain hardness mastered his voice. You are, Madame he proceeded, as brave as you are unreasonable. And yet it is not my pleasure to take from one of your sex but rather my dire misfortune She threw bacself to the one fullness of her height. If you are set upon the jewels you must take them she stabboeniy threw out.. He made a step towards her, then parsed, stood before her, looked her straight in the eyes. She did not ftmch an hair's breath. My respectful bondage ia Madame's he smiled at last. The homage of a thief!" she echoed, tauntingly. The insult hardened his heart, as her laat gibe had hardened his voice. Madame!" he menaced. I must have the jewels Then come and take them she said, con- fident, though she could not have told her reason, that he would not use force. He stood silent for a space, seemed ahnoat of a mind to take her at her word. Then his eye caught sight of a dice-box on the mantel-piece. Sti!I facing her, he came haJf-way towards the window-seat; paused at the nreptace caught the box in hia right hand and shook it to and fro. The di<:e WJthin rang an accompaniment to the action. Their merry jangie restored hia temper. Sooner, Madame," he said, sooner than lay unga!lant hands upon one so beautiful I will throw you fotr your jewels She laughed atoud in comfortable triumph- If he were rehictant to use fotce, what need to risk her jewets by consentmg to a cast ? And the stakes ?" she taanMd. What would you set against the jewels? Hardly your honour, sirrah He took no heed of her gibe, but with a care- less movement p!uc6ed off one of his long rid- ing g!ovee. From the gauntlet of the other he drew a folded paper. I wiU set this against the jotfebt!" he said, calmly. Does Madame agree ?" She put oat her hand. snatched at the paper as a kitten snatches at a pendant string. He stepped quickly backwards, threw has arm upward to its full length, hetd the pa-per htgh above his head and beyond her reach. A thousand pardons be bowed. But I will bold my own stake What is it ?" she ahnostrshouted. Fear— reaJ fear—showed in her eyes at last. And she took a step forward as if she woutd come to grtpa with him. His right hand.touc.hing her boeom, heM her back. The Angers of hia left hand deftty un- iolded the paper. 80, Madame, the Countess o< OasHetna-me, ia jealous and co<m9pirea to kidnap Mistfesa Crwynne he begatL Give me the letter she fnrioosty inter- posed. He drew btek another step and made her a reverence. Madame has a charming hand bat indis- creet aentnnents t** he observed. For answer she snatched up the dice-box from the table. "I set my jewels against the letter'"she cried. He bowed again—to hide his smile of tri- am ph. As Madame wishes he said. Do we throw but one main, or shall it be t.be best of three casts ?" But one main came her swift answer. Throw nrst, good thief My thanks, kind Countess said he. And he took the box which she held out to him. In taking it he touched her nngecs with his own. Faugh she said, as she wiped the point of contact with her kerchief. Exquisite he retorted. And he kissed the fingers which her own had met. Then he raised the box, shook it, and threw. Nine he said, as the dice lay still on the table. Madame, the jewels are mine Not so faat. Master Footpad!" she gibed to htde her fear. Hewinced at the taant—winced as a cry omcer might wince at the suggestion that he served in a regiment of the line. Anything but that, Madame!" he protested, in hurt tones. She laughed triumphantly and picked up the box. Then in her turn she threw a main. It was but a beggarly nve, and for a space she sat wrth head cast down and eyes thatahunned her fenow-gamester. Suddenly she looked up with an unexpected am3e. Indeed she said, with a swift change of tone. Indeed, I have not the happy hand to-day." He toyed wrth the dice-box and showed no viefbte station at bis success. You know the uroverb f he said, at last. Her eyebrows lifted with mvohmtarytnqa'iry, then dropped aga.m, as if regretting the ques- tion they had aaked. Lucky at play. unlucky at love we say m France, Madame!" She made* no answer—seemed as if she had not heard the words. And they sat in silence for a while. His eyes rested signi&cajitly upon the heavy gold chain which she wore. She caught their meaning, did batHe with her woman's nature— and won. She slipped the chain over her abundant hair and put it on the taMe. His eyes travelled to her nngers and stayed there. One by one she withdrew her rings attd put them on the table beside the chain. Then his eyes sought her face. But he spoke no word. For a while be found her at a loss. Presently ahe understood. And the diamond pendants from her e&rs lay cheek by jowl with rings and chains. Madame has indeed my thanks he said, .at last. She shrugged her shoulders at the speech. II "A solid return for the jewels she coun- tered. And I do but keep my word A rare virtue with your sax he assured I her. She disowned what she waa proudest to possess. Since the letter goes," she said, the jewels may well go too. For with them goes my life— ah. and n<*t my life alone f" He looked hard at her. His imaganatMm waa a-nre and his own words brought fuel to the name. Faith, you'd die game ho said. Pleaae God ahe tmswered proudly. He panaed, haK to make up hM BMnd, haii to enjoy the process. You don't aak me for the letter!" he threw out. Is it like that I should she latched, in open scom o! the bint. I don't aak favours of such as you No," said he with an insistence, but you a<*cept them She looked up haughtily. I dont take your me*ning," she said. It isn't my meaning that I want you to take," he assured her. What then she aaked indifferently. What but your poperty said he. He pushed the jewels towards her as he spoke, apd held out the letter across the table. Accept this as a souvenir of Claude Duval" he begged with his most gaJlant air. She snatched the letter from his hand and put it in the neck of her gown. You can keep the jewets," she told him, with a guesture of contempt. The addition of insult to ingratitude broke down his self-control. Before God, Madame," he cried, I've a mighty good mind to take the letter back." With a sudden impulse she rose to her feet. you're a. ma.n saul she. I make 00 doubt of it," be returned. But her brought a nush of pleasure to his checks. You'H your jcwefs now," he went on. And his voice came to her aa if it were a c.ress. AD save one she aji'!wered.a,s she cbose a diamond from the shining hen.p, and pushed it towards him. And tha.t you ''an keep as a souvenir of the Countess of Caatlemaine lie touched the jewel with uncertain ungprs —hesitated whether to refuse or a,ccept. "Is not the gift to your liking, sir ?" she asked. 'Tis not the gift but the manner of giving tha.t I weigh said he. And again his voice caressed her reluctant ear. The words touched her heart that beat warm and generous for all its pride. "Is there aught else for which you care, Monsieur Duval ?" she indulgently asked. So much. Madame." ho said. so much and yet of itself so small a thing that, though to ask were insolence, to deny were greater cruelty than ever Madame could bring herself to show. to-day is not the. first time that Madame and I have met. Oftentimes in the Mail or on the road the .sight of Madame's face has made my heart beo,t swiftly, and has sect the hot blood surging through my veins. And it necessity, that sets many an honest fellow astray, has made a rogue of Claude Duval, there is. despite his knavery, one bright lodestar which keeps him chivalrous to your sex. To-night I rode hard upon your coach from Worcester town, filled with one thought alone-to serve her tha,t held, and must for ever hold. my most presumptions heart. And if I made pretence to steal your trinkets it was but to filch an hour's happiness from fate." As he spoke he drew the diamond upon the little finger of his left hand and picked up his plumed hat from off the table. Then he made her a bow, such M my lord of Rochester might well have envied. Madame he concluded—and the gayness of his tone but ill-concealed the sadness of his heart—" I make my adieux—it is, perhaps, but au revoir ? For, late or soon, my time must come, and all London will nock to see the la.st of Claude OuvaJ. Hire, then, the largest window that gives on the place of execution, and the last kiss which Claude Duval blowa shaJl be yours." He bowed again, put his hand upon the sill, and vaulted from the apartment as easily aa he had entered .it. The Countess ran to the window and thruet out her head. Monsieur Duval!" she called anxiously. Madame!" said he reappearing. You have forgotten aomeHiing," she told him. "1. Mad&me ?" he questioned, smilingly. She advanced her hand a ntt-te. He caught it in his own and kissed it-not once, but again and again. An revoir sadd she at last. And be understood that his little hour had been lived and was at an end. With a sudden movement of his supple body he leaned for- ward and brushed her cheek lightly with his lips. Then he let go of her hand and stepped backwards. Til! Tyburc. Countess came his pleM&nt voice from out the biank moonlessness of the night. She stood for a while toying with her em- broidered handkerchief. Several times she m&de as if she would wipe his kiss from her cheek.. That ever I should make tryst with a Knight of the Road she reproached herself aloud. Then she found a balm her prid&-ay, &nd for her conscience, too Perha.ps, after aJl, the place of rendezvous excuses the assignation!" she not unhappily sighed. And she put the embroidered handkerchief into the bosom of her gown. (The End.) Next Week ;— D'R. CHUBB'S TnUMBPADS, By S. Barmg-Gould.
Bath and West Show.
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Bath and West Show. I THE CARD!FF MEETING. The Lord Mayor of Cardiff presided on Saturday afternoon at. an influentially attended public meeting, beid at the City HaIL, Cardiff, in connection with the proposed visit of the Bath and West and Southern Counties Society to Cardiff in N11, and to appoint a local com- mittee with the object of making every en- deavour to ensure that the exhibition shall be an unqualined success. Among those present were Lord Ninian Staart, General T. B. Tyier, Colonel H. Oakden Fismer, Colonel William Porrest, Messrs E. W. M. Corbett, D. T. Alexander, E. U. David, E. R. Masters (Pontyclun), Edw. Akers, Alder- man IDtyd Thomas, Alderman C. H. Bird, Alderman Lewis Morgan, Alderman F. J. Beavan, Messrs W. Meyler Thomas (Uan- trisa.nt), C. M. Berkeley, L. GottwaJtz, Trevor S. Jones, and T. J. Yorwerth (Cow- bridge). A letter expressing regret at inability to attend but promising any help that he was able to give was read from the Earl of Plymouth. The Lord Mayor moved that the meeting heard with great satisfaction that theBath and West and Southern Counties Society had decided to hold the exhibition at Cardiff in 1911, and pledged itself to give the society a and to make every endeavour to ensure that the exhibition shaJl be an un-, qu&uaed success- Lord Ionian Stuart seconded, and the reso- lution was adopted. Mr D. T. Alexander proposed the names of a number of influential people in Glamorgan- shire and Monmouthshire to form a General Local Committee, with power to add to their number. Mr E. W. M. Corbett seconded, and the resolution was adopted. On the motion of Alderman F. J. Beavan, seconded by Mr Edw. Akers, it was resolved that Mr E. W. M. Corbett be appointed hon. treasurer, and Mr J. L. Wheatley (the town clerk) and Mr Hubert Alexander joint hon. secretaries. The meeting closed with a vote of thanks to the Lord Mayor, moved by General Tyier seconded by Colonel Fisher. The Lord Mayor explained that a guarantee fund will be opened in dne course, and that Mr E. W. M. Corbett would be glad to receive subscriptions towards that fund and towards the additional fund for local prizes. Mr D. T. Alexander explained that members of the Bath and West and Southern Counties Society would have certain privileges during the ahow week, and he would be glad to deal with applications for membership from any who might desire to join.
CAB AND SCAVENC1N8 TRAIN.I
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CAB AND SCAVENC1N8 TRAIN.I Cardiff Emotion Ntght Admturs. Mr Charles Spencer, solicitor and Cierk to the Uand&S magistrates told a graphic story before Judge Hill Kellyat CardufCountyCourt on Saturday of his adventures on Penarth- road on the night of January 21st last. Wm. Henry Wells, cab-driver, claimed damages from the Corporation for atteged negligence- Mr Spencer, who was plaintjiTs farp, was the chief witness. Mr Parsons (instructed by Messrs Spencer and Evaos) was for the cabman, and Mr St. John Francis Williams (instructed by Mr O'Briem, from the Town Clerk's of6&e), defended. Mr Spencer said that on the night of the Cardiff parliamentary election he stayed in the club rather late, and about two a-m. engaged Wm. Henry Wells to drive him to his home at Handougb. When on Penarth- road, the hansom travelling at a fair rate, lights suddenly appeared in front. We putled over somerw&at to the left," said Mr Spencer, to avoid the object carrying those lights. That object turned out to be one of the Corporation scavenging trams. The head !igh<s were burning brightly. It was a darkish night. As soon as we passed those head lights another dark object suddenly loomed up, almost instantaneously, in front of us, five or eight yards away. It was obviouslv a big thing. The cabman pulled sharply to the left on to a footpath. The second object was atso a Corporation scavenging train, and the cabman could not, in the circumstances, possibly avoid it." It seemed to me at once," continued Mr Spencer, that there must be a smash. I threw the door open, I was shot straight out without touching anything, and landed on the foot- path. Fortunately, I was in no way injured. The cab (which coHided with the engine) turned clean over. Luckily, it did not touch me. The driver was shot into the road. The harness broke. The horse disappeared in the darkness. I picked myself up." Mr Spencer said it was obvious from the condition of the lamp on the train with which the hansom collided that it had not been alight for several minutes. The plaintiff corroborated Mr Spencer's evidence, adding that after the accident he was under medical treatment for a fortnight. Under cress-examination plaintiff said he was quite sober. Mr St. John WiBiams It was the night of the Parliamentary Election, and sq you took the opportunity of keeping sober t—Yea. Would you describe youself as a cautious driver *—Yes. Witness admitted he had been fined several times for being drunk in charge of a horse and cab. The defence was that the accident was due to the negligence of the cabman. Joseph Sea- bright, who was in charge of the scavenging train, said Wells was partially drunk. His Honour gave judgment for the p}aintiS for t25 (the amount claimed) and costs.
IWORRY AND OVERWORK.'
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WORRY AND OVERWORK. At a special sitting of the Dungleddy magis- trates at Haverfordwest on Saturday, John Morgan, milk vendor, Pendergast North, was brought up on a charge of attempted suicide. Evidence was given by Councillor Philip White, who said he found Morgan in a shed with his throat cut, on February 16th. Near by was a bloodstained razor. Dr. Brigstocke said Morgan had severed his windpipe. Prisoner now said he was driven to the deed by overwork and worry. Sureties of ;E10 to be of good behaviour for the I next two years h&ving been given by prisoner himself, and on his behalf by the Rev. Joei Davies and Mr W. T. Davies, prisoner was dis- charged with a caution.
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Josiah Shinton, roUcrman at Lysaght'a Works, Newport, and residing at 80. Ma?or- street. died on Saturday morning as a result of injuries received on Friday evening hy fatting offhisbicycJe. He was <,yeliU'; over Lliswcrry- road, when by some means he was thrown off his machine into the ditt-h by bbf 1'oadsiuc. He tcavea a widow and two children.
LOST COAL ORDERS;
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LOST COAL ORDERS; MR D. A. THOMAS'S V!EWS. The annual dinner of the Cardiff Division of the South Wales and Monmouthshire- Commer- cialTraveIlers' Association was held at theRoyat Hotel, CardiS. on Saturday evening. The presi- dent (Mr W. H. Shellabear) was in the chau*< and he was supported at the cross-table by Mr D. A. Thomas. M.P., Lord NinLan Stuart, Councillors <j. F. Forsdikc (Deputy Lord Mayor of CardiS). and P. CoMins, Messrs Wm. EvanS (Perth), Edgar John (Swansea). Hatton EvaaS (Penarth).Wm.TyIer (Newport). John Evans, George Joelson, Frank L. Bennett, Wtn. Rees (benevolent steward), A. E. Barnes (hon. sec.). George Barber. D. L. Richards, &c. The toast, Our Institutions," was submitted by Mr W. Evans (Perth) in an interesting address, when he emphasised the importance of the work done by the institutions and the need of the generous support of commercia! travellers. Mr Wm. &es (benevolent steward), in re- sponding. expressed the admiration of all coin* mercial travellers for the practical interest shown by Mr Evans (Forth) in the work of the institutions.—Mr G-eo. Joelson (who was referred to as one of the Princes of Beggars.4 because of his work on behalf of the ¡nstitU" tions) and Mr Edgar John (who has done splen- did service for the Commercial Travellers* Association in Swansea and District) also l'esponded. Mr D. A. Thomas, MJ* who was cord.ial11 J received, gave The City and Trade of CardiS." At the outset he paid the com* mercial tra-veUers tribute for their sympa" thetic and practical efforts on behalf of those needing assistance, and said that as a business man he fully appreciated the great part they played in building up the City of Caj-din. Proceeding, Mr Thomas said he took that. opportunity to congratulate the commerciat travellers and the general public upon the happy termination of the grave crisis which,} had just been settled in the South Wales coaJ' trade. (Applause.) He could not claim antt credit for the solution' of the doScuittsa. although he took an active paj-t in the early stages of the negotiations. but during the past ? two or three weeks he had been abroad for his hea.lth. If he could not congratulate the coal" owners upon the result, he could most heartily ? congratulate the public of Cardiff and all wbØ ( were engaged in the industries of the district. So far as the coalowners were concerned J there was no doubt they had got the worst of it, and there was a good deal of dissatisfactioØo,\ among many of them just now, as there was;1 among a large section of the men, as to the result of the negotiations. ) Those who watched the commercial barometer had no doubt that all the indict* <" tions pointed the same way—to an imp <? ment in .the trade of this country and of tbØ 1 ¡ world generally. (Applause.) He did they would see anything in the natute of boom, but next year they would in aU prob- ability see an enormous improvement i< trade. (Hear, hear.) He was not going to pre- ? diet any great immediate improvement in the coal trade or in the shipping industry. The continual crises in the coal trade of South Wales had done them an iJnmensØ amount of harm. (Hear, hear.) Con.fideD, was everything, and if the conudence of consumers abroad was shaken, and if they bad ? any doubt aa to whether they coald get from j South Wales so essential an article for thet industries aa coa.1, they would go elaewheze. Orders had been gtven for hundreds of., thousands of tons of coal to German v a.nJ America because of the uncertainty in the'< South Wales coal trade. He hoped the settle- ment which had been effected would last tot, Sve years, and in that event the whole of the industries of South Wales would (Applause.) Councillors G. F. Btorsdike (deputy-Lord. Mayor of CardiS) and P. Gollins responded. The toast of Our President" was sub- mitted by Mr John Evans and Mr D. L" Richards, who, on behalf of the members of association, presented Mr W. H. Shellabeaf. with a silver cigar case, a silver cigarette t and a silver matchbox. ? Mr Shellabeaf, who feelingty responded, am* ? nounced amidst applause that Mr D. A. Thomas, M.P., had subscribed MO guineaa to their benevolent institutions. MrF.L.Bennett proposed "The Visitors," and Mr George Barber, Mr J. LL Morgan, aa<t Mr W. H. Williams responded.
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Abetment Baby. I BEETON M-AME8TED ON 6RAVE CHAME. Frederick George tleetQu. a clerk, laterly in the employ of the Great Northern Railway, whose name has been mentioned in connectioa with the finding of the dead body of a child in an atlotment tenanted by him at Latch" worth while he was serving three months' im- prisonment in the second division for kid- mapping; was re- outside St. Albam'S GaÕl on Saturday and conveyed to the Hitehia Police Station, where he was charged with the murder of a child, who dnring the inquest proceedings had been stated to be the illegiti- mate daughter of the prisoner. Beeton, who had been conveyed to St* Albans Prison from Wormwood Scrubs over- night, so that he might be discharged from the prison in which he was nrst incarcerated, waa released fzom the gaol about 8.45 aJB. He was dressed in a well-Biting blue suit, and wore a bowler hat, and although suBeriBg from toothache, he stepped brisker oat of the prison gates. He was immediately stopped. however, by Sergeant Warren, of the Hitchi* police, who was accompanied by a constable, and was informed that he would be taken to Hitchin. Although obviously startled at the turn events bad taken. Beeton said nothing and quietly accompanied the escort to 81' Albans Station, where a train was taten fot Hitchin, the party arriving at 9-50. Later i0 the day the accused was changed before the Hitchin Bench. The actual charge against the prisoner was that he did feloniously, wilfully, and wttb malice aforethought, kill and murder Mar* garet Ruby Anna Young at Letchworth on Of about 10th September, 1909." Although the case has created considerable interest throat*- out the district, the public seats in court were practically unoccupied. Mr W. TTm wae the chairman. When the prisoner was ptaced h* the dock he stood with his hands behind hiS back, and with his eyes directed to the floor- He seemed to be somewhat despondent, and to take but little interest in the proceedings. The nrst witness called was Mr Richard Edwin Thacker.the Letchworth stationmaster. who proved the letting of an allotment beIoDt ing to the Great Northern Railway Company <t.. Letchworth to the prisoner, who was goods clerk at Letchworth in March, 1908. P'<* soner only retained possession of the aQotrnMB* ? (witness proceeded) until Jaonary of this although he had paid the rent cp to the reaeon for this being thaft he had lef?tte company's servtce. ) The Magistrates' Clerk Had aa[yo!te ehe t<* the prisoner used the allotment donng th* time it was in the possession of f.be prisoner t-1 I do not know of anybody else asiug-tbe ment but the prisoner unit! aboat the of March, when I allowed a new temat t* occupy it. The Clerk What did the 1IIe t.1I8- land for ?—He grew vegetaMea, potatoee, I have seen him working uponJ&. Sergeant Frederick WONton w..m.. ga.ve evidence. About midday om be.said, he received instructiona to dig owr aBotaoMnt at LetebwoEth, wh4eh was in oecotpation of Frederick Geofge Beeton. .notment was situated in the goods yazd al" Letehworth Station, 1\ Iter digging bad. ceeded an hour witness saw the -abll õt. child about two feet below the.S8faee. As the police omcer proceeded with evidence the prisoner leaned hea-.By onbl8\ risht arm with hand Mwedng his face a< though he was deeply aSected. Proceeding, witness said that later a boil1 was found. Dr. Macfayden, of t.< bemg present. The body was wrapped iD". old pink nannelette nightgown, andatocnd itØ stomach was a nannel binder amd a wtate twin napkin. The body was discovered ill about the middle of the allotment. The Cerk: When you were digging had any indication that you would nnd SQineth!Be? at the spot ?—I noticed that the groond.ø loosened. It was between two rows of Brasaat* sprouts, andsome c.abba.ge plants were on the top. This was all the evidence oSered, reply to the chairman as to whether care to cross-examine the witness, nrmly answered No, sir," and made a simile reply to a query as to whether he had hÏJIft to aay against being remanded until Friday. A remand was then ordered to tW..tø. and the prisoner .was removed to the ceDs.
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RA!LWAY AMBULANCE. AtSt. John's Schools, Cardin, on Satur Inter-Railway Challenge Shield competition to connection with the St. John's AmbulaoC* Association took place before a large attend* ance. MrC. S. Dennis, general manager of tb8 CardiS Railway Company, presided, and th6 judge was Dr. Thomley. There were teams in the contest, as follows :— Cardiff Railway Company—Robert Rant, C. KaUaher, C. Wells, R. Jorgensen, and W Padget. G.W.R.—J. Davey, J. Watts, R. Germane* L. R. Baker (captain), and C. Ewens. Rhymney Railway Company—A. HoweUS. G. Gibbons, J. Wilson, H. Vjcey (captain) anc1 T. Morgan. The work gone through included stretchy drill, individual bandaging, viva voee exatO'" nation. &C., nnd the competitors gave a vef7 creditable exhibition. The secretarial dutJ were ably carried out by Mr T. E. Clement.. Dr. Thornley, in giving .judgment, COIIlP mented the men on the standard of merit a". tained and gave as his award :—G.W.B-. °" marks, Rhymney Railway 78, and Cardiff:Ra. way 70. The Chairman, in proposing a vote s* thanks to the doctor, said he had been assocuv ted with ambulance work ior over 25 years. The motion was carried heartily. The man. responding to a similar vot'' proposed by Mr J. R. LIfweUyi, said th.it he would nc?' be content uti<it he saw one of the local tca.?- compcting for the British Shield. There aP peared to be n'! reason why the winning telAotlJ in that competition shoutd not take part.